Re: Movies that made you cry (or close)
Ken Burns' The Civil War.
Many times.
I'm particularly affected by the sequence after the announcement of the Emancipation proclamation, where they show photographs of newly-freed slaves, fading into pictures of the same men, now dressed as Union soliders, with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir busting out the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Getting... dusty... in here...
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